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“Everyone wants their child to be special and unique and this among other things makes us very proud,” said Jemima’s mother, Sophy.

“Shortly after Jemima died, we watched a programme about children awaiting heart transplants… It affirmed for us that saying ‘no’ would have been denying eight other people the change for life, especially over Jemima’s heart, which Harvey [Jemima’s father] had felt uncomfortable about donating at the time.”

It was the sudden death of a family friend in a car crash that prompted Jemima’s parents to first talk to Jemima and her younger sister about organ donation.

“Jemima had never heard of organ donation before and found it a little bit unsettling but totally understood the importance of it,” Jemima’s mother added.

Just two weeks later, Jemima tragically died after suffering a brain aneurysm while helping to prepare her mother’s 38th birthday party.

She died at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, four days after her collapse.

Although they found it very difficult to donate their daughter’s organs, Jemima’s parents knew it was the right thing to do, and what their daughter wanted.

The NHS Blood and Transplant has now found, after reviewing records, that Jemima is the only organ donor in Britain who has helped so many people on the NHS.

Her heart, small bowel, and pancreas went to three different people, while two people received her kidneys. Her liver was split and transplanted into a further two people, and both of her lungs were transplanted into one patient.

An average donation results in 2.6 transplants, so eight is extremely high.